Treestyletab: [feature request] Hide standard tab bar upon showing TST and vice versa

[Mehradzie]

Hide standard tab bar upon showing TST and vice versa

When pressing F1 TST would show and the standard tab bar hides. Press F1 again and the standard tabs show back up and TST hides as there is no use for both of them to be on the same screen at the same time.

• Platform (OS): Windows 7
• Version of Firefox: 57.0b14
• Version (or revision) of Tree Style Tab: 2.0.7

[kah0922]

That can't happen until Bug 1332447 lands.

[rancidfrog]

Yes it can. This can be easily fixed temporarily by having a Preference option that creates userChrome.css with:

#TabsToolbar {
    visibility: collapse !important;
}

Actually, some people can argue that this should be done automatically as the whole point of the add-on is to replace tabstoolbar with side tabs toolbar.

[gnite]

No it can't. The only way to create and manage the userChrome.css file is to do it manually. Add-ons can't do that.

[me10240]

Could anyone explain where should the file userChrome.css be placed ? What is the process to use the workaround mentioned ? Is this solution for firefox ? I was puzzled by the name of the file.

[piroor]

There is a document about userChrome.css on MDN:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/Tutorial/Modifying_the_Default_Skin#Customize_with_userChrome.css

[piroor]

And you'll find the "user profile directory" from "about:support".

[evactadmin]

I just had this issue after my Firefox updated to Quantum and was able to solve it by following the above directions, but it took me a while to figure out what to do. For the benefit of others in my situation, here are the steps I followed:

1. Search Windows for %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ and find your user directory. In my case, I had two directories in Profiles and I opened the one with a date showing that it had been modified today.

2. Inside your user directory, create a new directory called 'chrome'. In that directory, create a new file called userChrome.css and edit it to include this:

#TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse !important; }

1. Close Firefox and reopen it.

That worked for me.

Thanks, piroor, for the great extension!

[me10240]

Worked for me on linux too. Thank you so much ! Went to ~/.mozilla/firefox/blahblah.default/ and created directory chrome and followed instructions as above.

[piroor]

I close this because this is out of the range of WebExtensions-based extension.